HHS has issued final regulations on medical loss ratios, spelling out what expenses health insurers can include under healthcare activities versus administrative work, according to a release by HHS.
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Recondo Technology, a Greenwood Village, Colo.-based provider of revenue cycle solutions for the healthcare industry, has released its Recondo Financial Assistance, according to a company news release.
Congress's current plan to extend the Medicare physician fee-fix for just one month is the latest act of "one of the tragi-comic sideshows of passing ObamaCare," according to an opinion piece by the Wall Street Journal.
Two hospital CEOs, three association executives and two consultants discuss 10 trends for hospitals in 2011.
A wide variety of indicators show healthcare in California is financially much weaker than in the rest of the nation, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.
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An uptick in hospital mergers has raised consumer concerns that healthcare reform will exacerbate problems it was meant to solve by reducing competition, increasing costs and creating incentives for providers to limit care in order to retain cost-saving bonuses, according…
Lakeside Hospital at Bastrop (Texas) closed abruptly last week, according to an Austin Business Journal report.
Carolyn Scanlon, president & CEO of the Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, lists six challenges hospitals face in the near future.
Recovery audit contractors are expected to expand beyond hospitals and spend more time on physicians' billing, shifting from automated to complex reviews of these claims, according to Paul Spencer, a consultant at Fi-Med Management in Wauwautosa, Wis.
A study by the Center for Studying Health System Change finding wide variances in hospital pricing is "deeply flawed" in several ways, according to a release by the AHA.